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Our Man in Havana (1958) is a novel set in Cuba by the British author Graham Greene. Greene uses the novel to mock intelligence services, especially the British MI6, and their willingness to believe reports from their local informants. The book predates the Cuban Missile Crisis, but certain aspects of the plot, notably the role of missile ...
English. Box office. $2,000,000 (US/ Canada) [1] Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed, and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs. [2][3][4] The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.
Our Man in Havana is an opera in three acts composed by Malcolm Williamson to a libretto by Sidney Gilliat based on Graham Greene 's 1958 novel Our Man in Havana. Williamson's first full-scale opera, it was premiered on 2 July 1963 at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. Its first performance in East Germany was in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz ...
Concord Picante. Ramón " Mongo " Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and boogaloo dance crazes of the 1960s. His biggest hit was his rendition of Herbie ...
Wearing a traditional Palestinian scarf, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel once again led a rally in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana on Monday to signal both the government’s criticism of the ...
Tropicana Club. El Tropicana Night Club in Havana, Cuba located in a lush, 36,000-square-metre (390,000 sq ft) estate tropical garden opened on December 30, 1939 at the Villa Mina in Marianao. It is located next door to the old Colegio de Belén, Havana, presently, the Instituto Técnico Militar.
Havana (Camila Cabello song) " Havana " is a song by American singer and songwriter Camila Cabello from her debut studio album Camila (2018). [1] Featuring American rapper Young Thug, it was released on August 3, 2017, alongside "OMG" initially as a promotional single; it was later serviced to radio on September 8, 2017, as a single. [2]
The words also occur in a speech by Wormold, the lead character in Graham Greene's 1958 novel Our Man in Havana – also an entertaining tale of Cold War espionage. ("I have come back", he said to Beatrice, "I am not under the table. I have come back victorious. The dog it was that died.")